The heartbreaking video comes hours after Kaylee’s father, Joshua, announced her death. He took to a  Facebook livestream where he explained in ASL that he had to fly from Texas to Maryland after Kaylee was involved in a car accident. He noted that Kaylee’s heart stopped en route to the hospital.

“I am taking a flight that I never would like to take,” the caption to the nearly 23-minute video read.

The Frederick County Sheriff’s Office said that on Tuesday at around 2:52 a.m., deputies and crews from the Frederick County Division of Fire and Rescue Services “responded to a fatal single-vehicle collision in the 11400 block of Windsor Road in Ijamsville, Maryland.”

“The preliminary investigation revealed that a 1995 Honda Accord, operated by a 19-year-old Frederick man, traveled off the right side of the two-lane roadway and struck a culvert. Excessive speed is believed to be a contributing factor in the collision,” a media release stated. “In addition to the driver, two passengers were in the vehicle at the time of the collision. The driver was transported to a local hospital with injuries that are not believed to be life-threatening. One passenger declined medical treatment at the scene.”

The Sheriff’s Department identified the second passenger as Kaylee, who was transported from the scene to a local trauma center where she later died.

The crash remains under investigation.

A GoFundMe has been created to support Kaylee’s family.

“Kaylee Hottle’s family is facing an unimaginable loss after Kaylee tragically passed away in a car accident,” the page reads. “Kaylee was a beloved member of her family and community, and her sudden passing has left her loved ones heartbroken and overwhelmed.”

The page has raised over $28,000, exceeding the page’s target of raising $20,000.

Kaylee comes from an all-deaf family spanning four generations on her father’s side, according to IMDb.

She started her on-camera career appearing in PSAs for the Glide app in 2016 and 2017, due to her fluency in ASL. In 2018, she was featured in “10 Deaf Children: One Powerful Message.”

She famously played Jia in 2021’s “Godzilla Vs. Kong” and 2024’s “Godzilla X Kong: The New Empire.” Kaylee also made appearances in the reboot of “Magnum P.L” in 2021.